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Sunday Apr 28, 2024
Ep 118 Mini Failure 32 PFOA/C8 Contamination
Sunday Apr 28, 2024
Sunday Apr 28, 2024
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about PFOA/C8 Contamination (Dupont Scandal). PFOA has been poisoning living creatures in the Ohio river basin for decades. One brave lawyer took on a huge corporation in this real life David and Goliath story.
Original Air Date: December 12, 2022
Episode Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont
- https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/dupont-lawsuits-re-pfoa-pollution-in-usa/
- https://peri.umass.edu/toxic-100-air-polluters-index-current
- https://www.alleghenyfront.org/ohio-river-communities-are-still-coping-with-teflons-toxic-legacy/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:IARC_Group_2B_carcinogens
- https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/chemicals/teflon-and-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa.html#:~:text=IARC%20has%20classified%20PFOA%20as,cause%20cancer%20in%20lab%20animals.
- Podcast - https://www.alleghenyfront.org/category/fullepisodes/
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